California Coastal Commission Meeting

The Coastal Commission will be reviewing the City of Capitola's Local Coastal Plan (LCP) Amendment to parking rates on August 10th.  Interested parties can find more information on the Coastal Commission public hearing by going to the following link: https://www.coastal.ca.gov/meetings/agenda/#/2023/8

The proposed amendment would change the way in which public parking fees and zones are established in the City. Whereas the existing LCP explicitly lists the allowed parking rates in various parts of the City (and thus any changes to these defined parking fees and locations would require an LCP amendment, approved by the Coastal Commission), the proposed amendment would remove these explicit rates with policy language that establishes the review criteria by which the City would authorize parking fee changes as part of CDP review. In other words, the City proposes to replace the LCP’s specific listing of parking fees instead with evaluation criteria and required findings for approval of any proposed changes, including that any changes to parking fees and locations will not have a detrimental impact on public coastal access.

The agenda report for the Coastal Commission is attached below, and further information can be found by viewing the City Council Agenda Packet from June 8th.